Preparing graduates for the professions using scenario-based learning
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Preparing graduates for the professions using scenario-based learning

Edited by Edward Peter Errington.
ISBN: 978-1-921214-66-0 A5 266pp
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This is an ideal book for tertiary teachers on the front line who are doing their best to bridge gaps between their discipline area and professional practice with a view to optimising graduate employability. This collection of ideas will also prove useful for curriculum specialists, work-based-learning advisers, teacher educators, coordinators of academic development programs, and all others sharing the front line. Its main purpose is to report on ways that scenario-based learning can be planned, delivered, evaluated, and reflected upon in a systematic way to embed desirable graduate attributes.

An expanding student population, widening participation and the subsequent pressure on work placement opportunities where students, as would-be professionals can articulate and present their experience has resulted in a re-evaluation of what is possible on professional training/development courses. Added to these pressures, is the respective governments' insistence on institutions helping students bridge perceived gaps between subject theory and professional practice.

Contributors to this anthology argue that simulated or 'near-world' scenarios, delivered as "essential slices of (professional) reality", (Stewart 2003:) can help build bridges of understanding between university disciplines and the world of work no matter what the subject area. Real-world scenarios can be embedded in most curriculum areas when based on notions of 'authentic learning'. That is, learning in situ, or situated learning which reflects, in a true-to- life way the actual norms, cultural knowledge, roles, responsibilities and language of the chosen workplace.

Dr Edward Peter Errington is an Academic Development Adviser within Teaching & Learning Development at James Cook University, Townsville, North Queensland. He is author of five other international texts that explore the uses of scenario-based learning in relation to the employability of tertiary graduates. He has lengthy experience of working with university staff from a broad range of disciplines - aiming to enhance the employability prospects of university graduates in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He has published six other books on the efficacy of scenario-based learning and met invitations to present his work in 15 countries

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Contributions

  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction

    Part One - Employability, professional knowledge and scenario-based learning

  1. Creating future-proof graduates using scenario-based learning
    Anne Hill, Celia Popovic, Jenny Eland, Ruth Lawton and Nick Morton
  2. Using scenario-based learning to promote situated learning and develop professional knowledge
    Som Naidu
  3. Getting There: Choosing scenarios to meet specific professional needs
    Edward Peter Errington

    4. Part Two - Preparing graduates using problem-based scenarios

  4. Problem-based scenarios for a professional future
    Janine Henderson
  5. Scenario based disaster health education: 'war stories' as vicarious experience
    Peter Aitken
  6. Enhancing employability through the use of real-life scenarios in digital media design education
    Katja Fleischmann and Ryan Daniel
  7. 'Schooling for Hard Knocks': Using Scenario-Based Learning (SBL) for Behaviour Management Skills in Pre-Service Teacher Education
    Raoul Adam
  8. Understanding experience: The collaborative journey using scenario-based learning
    Eula Miller and Gayatri Nambiar-Greenwood
  9. Using scenario-based learning to teach clinical diagnostics
    Marie L Caltabiano
  10. It happened just like we talked about: Using scenarios to develop professional identity in pre-service teachers
    Ruth Hickey and Pauline Taylor
  11. Webfolio - 'Real-life' scenarios in an online learning environment
    Reesa Sorin
  12. Using scenarios to train peer mentors online
    Jenny Worsley and Pauline Taylor

    13. Part Three - Preparing graduates using issues-based scenarios

  13. Using real-life scenarios in law to prepare graduates for professional work practices
    Eric Holm
  14. Scenario-based Learning: An effective transformational tool for cultural diversity
    Lynette Ireland
  15. The Use of Issues-Based Scenarios to Promote Authentic Learning and Assessment in Higher Education Contexts
    Judi Baron and Ann Davenport
  16. What's in a relationship? Exploring cultural assumptions from an international perspective
    Rowena Errington
  17. Social Work Ethics in Scenario Based Learning
    Amanda Nickson

    18. Part Four - Preparing graduates using speculative-based scenarios

  18. The Human-Animal Zoo: Exploring enclosure, species and space
    Mary Murray
  19. Questioning good practice: Using speculative scenarios to develop knowledge of teacher thinking
    Andrea Allard and Ninetta Santuro
  20. Preparing graduates for work in mental health adopting a scenario-based approach
    Regina Pernice
  21. Living Forever: Exploring mortality and immortality with scenario-based learning
    Mary Murray

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